Kharkov, to the People's Commissar Antonov

In view of the complaints of the People's Secretariat regarding the friction that has arisen between you and the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine, I request that you for your part report what exactly the matter is; it goes without saying that our interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine, insofar as this is not necessitated by military necessity, is undesirable. It is more convenient to carry out one or another measure through the organs of local authority, and generally it would be best if all misunderstandings were settled on the spot 43.

Lenin

(February, before the 3rd), 1918

from the book: V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko.

"Notes on the Civil War,"

from a telegraph blank

Written in January, before the 21st

First published in 1924

vol. 1, Moscow

Printed from the text